The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-22
News of the Week.

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Secretary Lamar. accompanied by his
bride, returned to Washington on Saturday.
The Arlington House, at New Westminster,
British Columbia, was burned early Sunday
and three of the boarders persisted
in the flames.
Thos. ]. Cluyerius, whose execution at
Va, last Friday, was published in
the ADVOCATE last week, asserted his inno-
cence to the last.
James Lamb, Albert Odell and John T.
Echols, white, and John Stevens, colored,
sas, for murders committed i'll the Indian
Territory.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit Company
steel ferry boats to Harlan x Hollingsworth.
of Delaware. They are to cost 500, 600 each
and be ready by June or July.
The steamship Seminole on Saturday sailed
from Charleston, South Carolina, for New
ham, Alabama. This is the first cargo of pig
iron ever shipped from Charleston.
A disease, resembling the pink eye, has
prevailed for several weeks among the horses
of the Transverse Railway at Pittsburg, Pa.
and several have died within few days.
An epidemic of fever and sore throat has
prevailed in st. lgnace, Michigan, for the last
two weeks, but only one death has resulted so
far. The schools have been closed. The dis
ease resembles scarlet fever, but what it is
medical men are not agreed.
The ''oldest man in New England"
Charles King, who is said to have smoked
and nsed liquors as he cared for over 90 years,
celebrated on Saturday, at Middleton, Mass,
his 106th birthday anniversary. His mother,
it is stated, lived to be 107 years old, and he is
still hale enough to look for several years of
life.yet.
A Chinese laborer on the Northern Pacific
Railroad at Clallam, in Washington Territory,
having a quarrel with two of his countrymen
a few nights ago, placed giant powder cart
ridge between them as they lay asleep, and
then, lighting the fuse, fed. One of the
men was killed, and the other MORALLY
wounded.
DR.. McGlynn is reported to be very i'll in
New York, heart trouble from which he has
long suffered having been given an acute turn
by the recent excitement, and he is also af-
fcted with nervous prostration. 1t is said
that he sent message to his parishioners on
Monday night enjoining forbearance, submits
sion and patience. -
The Senate of Indiana on Monday, follow
ing the example of the House set last week,
unseated Mcdonald, Republican, the Demo
cratic majority refusing the minority of the
Elections Committee the privilege of present
ing report. This restores the Legislature on
joint ballot to the former figures of 76 Demo
Gratis and IA Republicans,
Temperatures below zero were reported in
the West Tuesday morning as follows: St.
Paul, 81; Chicago, 10; St. Vincent, 35; Duluth,
2liMilwaukee, 10; Omaha, 10; Dies Moines, II;
Toledo, Z; and Springfield, 5. 1t was zero at
Cincinnati, St. Louis and Leavenworth, and
there was freezing temperature,at Charles
ton, Augusta, Montgomery and Pensacola in
the South.
Representative Croxton, of Virginia, has in
troduced resolution adopted by the common
council of Fredericksburg, Va, requesting
Congress to appropriate $40, 1000 to complete
the unfinished monument at Fredericksburg
to the mother of George Washington. This
ner-stone was laid by President Jackson.
Work was continued for four years and then
abandoned.
Three governors as states we're iqaugarated
on Tuesday pelawarei Beaver, of
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z, quay on Ine same Gay was eiee'ea hltea
states senator ron fennsyivahia, ana george
tray was re- erected 70 Inc onlte1 states
2fpa.e W 'n ~ l1eiamalo 44es'Sa.utS nIuatoI
J. R. Hawley in Connecticut and Eugene
Hale in Maine.
The schooner Parallel, from San Francisco
for Astoria, was driven on the rocks outside
the Golden Gate on Saturday night, and about
an hour afterwards about one hundred thou.
sand pounds of powder, which formed m! q part OF
her cargo, niew up, wrecEing the Glih House,
the e negbhorSond Tbree 1 of tbe ,n
tne heiGno9 iS InLee y, thG me saving
crew VINO hau remained on 'he peacn were
severely lhlurea'
The seeretary of the Interior has requested
the Attorney Generalto bring civil suit against
Mlckle Brothers, of st. Helen, Oregon, for
the manufactured value of timber alleged ta
,haye been unlawfully cut from Government
lands in Columbia county, Oregon. 1t is
asserted that this firm have cut and removed
from Columbia county over 5,00O, 600 feet OF
nj; ceaar anu lhapie umper, ooaru measure e
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The special Committee OF the Senate on
Centennial Celebrations, at meeting on Sat
urday, decided with reference to the centen-
NAL of the PRONUNCIATION of the United States
Constitution, that the celebration shall consist
81 az address and soome civic and military
displays the details OF which are to be settled
hereafter with respect 10 the 4ooh anni-
yersary OF the discovery OF America 1t was
decided to recommend that JOINT committee
of the two houses be raised TO consider the
subject OF an appropriate eeleofaEioa IN isa9.
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Mayer Kaufman, well known commission
merchant of St. Louis, returned there on Sun
day from Cuba, where he had an experience
for which he will ask the United States to
demand OF SPAN TIE SUN az asu'ooo; ne